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The WBG is marking the tenth anniversary of the WDR2012 with the year-long #AccelerateEquality initiative, which aims at reviewing and learning from the progress made, identifying critical challenges, generating innovative ideas, and calling for increased action and funding.

This event will explore the important progress made and lessons learned from the implementation of policy reforms and projects over the last 10 years. The discussion also will center on new ideas and aspirations for the next 10 years. Panelists will reflect on the implications of some of the most pressing global challenges on the prospects for achieving gender equality.

World Development Report 2021: Data for Better Lives – the first WDR focused solely on the role of data for development – comes at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic is wreaking havoc on the global economy, bringing to the fore global data inequalities. How do we tap the full value of data, ensuring equitable access for poor people? What reforms are needed in data governance to protect individuals, businesses, and societies from harm? As we chart a course for a resilient recovery, World Ba...

Over the past decade, there has been tremendous interest in understanding how technology is shaping the nature of work and education around the world.

Using data more effectively is central to answering many of today’s most pressing questions: How do we fight the COVID-19 crisis more effectively? How do we design better policies to mitigate the adverse effects of the climate crisis?

A quarter of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa still lacks mobile broadband coverage. Affordability is the primary constraint to mobile broadband adoption.

Fritz Zurbrügg will step down as a Swiss National Bank vice-chair in July. SWI swissinfo.ch introduces five possible successors.

Fritz Zurbrügg will step down as a Swiss National Bank vice-chair in July. SWI swissinfo.ch introduces five possible successors.

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This article will be released in full online November 8, 2021. As the internationalization of monopoly capital grows, particularly through the domination of…